INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte and Opdycke, Leonard Eckstein
Aurelian, the Emperor, 401
Austria, Margarita of, 202, 395-6 Maximilian of,—see Maximilian I Philip of, 413
Autharis, King of the Lombards, 393
Ayola, Maria de, 317
Bacon, Francis, afterwards Lord Verulam, 316
Bactria, 285, 414
Bad government, the evils of, 249
Bad master, the courtier to leave the service of a, 99, 285
Baja, 274, 410
Bajazet II of Turkey, 141, 173, 372, 388
Balance and contrast, in art and character, 83
Baldi, Bernardino, 327
Baldness, jests about Bernardo Bibbiena’s, 122, 155
Ballare and danzare compared, 352-3, 382
Ballatore, 156, 382
Balzo, Antonia del, 400, 404 Isabella del, Queen of Naples,—see Isabella del Balzo
Banchi, a street in Rome, the scene of a trick played upon Bibbiena, 159-60, 383
Bandello, 366
Barbara of Brandenburg, Marchioness of Mantua, 374, 404
Barbarelli, Giorgio,—see Giorgione
Barbarian influence upon Latin, resulting in Italian, 43
Barbary pirates, touching incident following a husband’s rescue from, 195-7
Barbèra, Gaspare, 422
Bari, Roberto da,—see Roberto da Bari
Barletta, 73, 87, 352
Barletta, the tournament at, 351
Barlettani, Lucrezia, 367
Barozzi, Pietro, the (Arch-) Bishop of Padua, 136, 366
Bartolommeo, joke concerning the name, 151
Basa, Bernardo, 420
Basset, a dance performed after the first evening’s discussion, 73, 352
Battesworth, A., 421
Bavaria, Duke Albert III of, 374 Margarita of,—see Margarita of Bavaria
Bayeux, the Bishop of,—see Canossa, Ludovico da
Beatrice, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165 of Lorraine, 394
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond, 413
Beauty: personal beauty requisite in the courtier, 23; beauty unadorned, 55; love defined as “a certain desire to enjoy beauty,” 288; two ways of enjoying beauty, 289; beauty, an effluence of divine goodness, 289; cannot be truly enjoyed by possessing the body in which it is found, 290; “beauty is good:” true love of beauty works for good, 291; effect of women’s beauty on their own character, 292-3, 296; “Do not believe that beauty is not always good,” 293; beauty, a true sign of inward goodness, 294; beauty through utility, 294-5; “the good and the beautiful are in a way one and the same thing,” 295; bodily beauty derived from beauty of the soul, 295-6; beautiful women, more chaste than ugly women, 296; beauty does not spring from the body wherein it shines, 298; beauty best enjoyed through sight and hearing, 298; beauty engendered in beauty, 299; beauty to be enjoyed for itself, and not for the sake of the body wherein it dwells, 302-3; the highest enjoyment of beauty is the enjoyment of beauty in the abstract, apart from bodily form, 303-4
Beazzano, Agostino,—see Bevazzano
Beccadello, Cesare, 160-1, 383 Domenico Maria, 383 Ludovico, 383
Becco, a he-goat, 129, 363